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gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 9, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10400

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
71 vs 51

Hardware

gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m smollm2-1.7b-instr…
MachineMac ProMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10400Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.1macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec75.028.5
First chunk136 ms393 ms
TTFT136 ms393 ms
Load time0.0 sN/A
Memory usage0.8 GB3.2 GB
Memory %3%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

gemma-3-4b-it-q4-k-m

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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